In days of financial unrest and fluctuating currency values, men are afraid lest they lose that which they deem necessary to their wellbeing. Material wealth is liable to chance and change. To-day it may seem solid and valuable; to-morrow, by a succession of untoward events, insubstantial and valueless. Rich and poor alike are insecure from fear so long as matter is looked upon as security. "Riches certainly make themselves wings." As one nation after another is called upon to face the depletion of their currency standard, wisdom bids one look away from matter to find substance in Spirit.
Let us consider how Christ Jesus faced the problem of lack when it was presented to him. When in the wilderness, after wrestling with the suggestions of evil over a period of forty days, "he was afterward an hungred." Did he submit to the claims of matter as being desirable or even necessary? No. His answer to evil suggestion was, "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." His understanding that food is spiritual, and that the power of Truth is able to sustain one, healed his sense of hunger at a later date, when, after he had imparted words of Truth to the woman of Samaria at Jacob's well, his disciples, upon their return from the place whither they had gone for food, found him refreshed; for he had meat to eat that they knew not of. His demonstrations over the false claims of material sense enabled him upon two occasions to feed the multitude with what appeared to be a meager supply of food.
Even as Christ Jesus had an understanding of spiritual refreshment, so to-day we, by the application of the rules of divine Principle, as revealed in Christian Science, can find true substance. On page 269 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written, "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul."
